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Job Description

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier retailer of home furnishings, culinary and serving equipment, and specialty foods and cooking ingredients in the United States and Canada. Our brands, including Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Teen, Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm and Williams-Sonoma Home, are among the best known and most respected in the industry. We successfully market them through all three major channels - retail stores, catalogs, and the Internet. Among all of our brands, we cover every room in the house: from the kitchen to the living room, bedroom, home office, and even the hall closet.

Job Summary:

* Oversee and manage the Visual Merchandising Signage team including 2 direct reports* Provide team with ongoing and timely performance feedback, six month progress updates and yearly performance appraisals/goals* Hire and train new employees as needed* Delegate projects as appropriate to team members* Hold informational meetings with signage team to ensure that all issues/deadlines are addressed in a timely manner* Oversee communication and manage traffic between signage team and merchant/inventory teams* Oversee all signage projects and production from our end through to the vendor and out to the stores; ensure all collateral reaches stores per deadlines

* Oversee the production of all feature, markdown, promotional, and price change signage.* Oversee the production of all perimeter signage as needed for stores.* Oversee the production of in store collateral and work with outside vendors in determining individual store needs.* Create new store signage as needed based on signage standards.* Oversee the proofing process with the merchant and content teams.* Manage the relationship with all signage vendors* Oversee the maintenance of the signage filing systems* Manage the signage distro for all retail stores* Manage the approval process for all retail signs* Provide team with workflow planning/production timelines

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience* 2-3 years producing printed materials* Time management skills in an extremely fast-paced, high volume environment* Excellent organizational skills* Strong verbal and written communication skills* Extremely proficient on Mac OSX including Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator* Outstanding attention to detail is a must.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

About Williams-Sonoma Inc.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is a specialty retailer of products for the home. The retail segment of the Company’s business sells its products through five retail store concepts: Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm and Williams-Sonoma Home. The direct-to-customer segment of the Company’s business sells similar products through its seven direct-mail catalogs and through six e-commerce Websites. The Company’s Williams-Sonoma stores offer a selection of culinary and serving equipment, including cookware, cookbooks, cutlery, informal dinnerware, glassware, table linens, specialty foods and cooking ingredients. The Company has two segments: retail and direct-to-customer. The catalogs reach customers in the United States, while the five retail concepts, as of February 1, 2009, operated 627 stores in 44 states.
(Source: 10-K)

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